----- Original Message ----- >Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 10:14:17 -0500 >From: Adam Chunn <[email protected]> >To: solaris driver <[email protected]> >Subject: [driver-discuss] How do I turn off the boot-archive check on > boot-up? > > >I am having a minor annoyance with my 111a build of 2009.06 Solaris. > >The short version: How do I turn off the boot-archive check on boot-up? > >The long version: > >I am doing driver development and a couple of times a day I crash my system. > >I do not work close to my development system, so I have been >successfully using the /etc/system "set snooping=1" trick to have my >Solaris system reboot when it hangs itself. When that doesn't work, I >use IPMI to reboot my box remotely. > >Every time my Solaris box reboots from a crash, it hangs just in initial >boot-up wanting me to enter System Maintenance Mode and type "svcadm >clear system/boot-archive" because the driver install changed some >archived files. Unfortunately I can't remotely enter system and type >these commands. I have to trundle down to my lab and type these commands. > >I have tried to just disable the service by "svcadm disable >system/boot-archive", but upon crash, the OS still requests system >maintenance mode, I have to enter it, re-enable the service, re-clear >the service and then start up. > >I have tried to add the "-F failsafe" flag to various lines in the grub >menu list. But everywhere I put it, it either hangs my box or ignores it. > >Surely there is an easy way to disable this. Any help would be >appreciated. Thanks. > >-Adam
I'm developping nic drivers. I don't put my drivers into /kernel/drv directory when they aren't stable. Instead of that, I load the drivers into kernel space explicitly by using "modload my_driver". In addition I put the source code on a separate NFS server. That prevents the source and binaries from corrupted when the test machine crashes. -masa _______________________________________________ >driver-discuss mailing list >[email protected] >http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss _______________________________________________ driver-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/driver-discuss
